Books I loved from childhood

Autumn is a time for cosy evenings in curled up on the sofa. I sadly never seem to read as much as I would like to, I probably manage 1 book about every 4-6 weeks, except when I’m on holiday when I can read 2-3 in a week.

When I was a child though I spent a lot of time on my own – my only sibling a brother is 11 years older than me. I always had my head in a book, I could never read them fast enough.

This has prompted me to look back at some of my favourite childhood books.

Enid Blyton Mystery Series – I read every one of this set. I still love a good mystery book today. To be honest I loved any book by Enid Blyton

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott – I have lost count of the number of times I read this beautiful story. I was engrossed by all the girls in the March family and their romantic interests.

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None – this seems a strange book to add to a childhood collection, but I moved on to Agatha Christie around the age of 13. My brother had a large collection of her books. This was the first ‘grown-up’ book I read. Again I have remained a huge Agatha Christie fan to this day.

Enid Blyton, Little Women and the Katy books, as well as The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe were my favourite books when I was a child. I was a bookworm and still am. I joined the Goodreads reading challenge and now make sure I find time every day to read 🙂

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I’m Elaine a Neonatal Nurse who retired from the NHS at age 55. I’m loving this next phase of my life – Retirement is the best job I ever had. I want to share over 50’s lifestyle tips including age appropriate beauty reviews, coping with the trials and tribulations of the Menopause, weight gain around the middle, fashion, travel. Also using my Neonatal experience for gift guides and ways to support families of Preterm and sick newborns.